Recent content by carolthom

Yes, he is a meat bird.

I have a 7 week old Ranger that lost his ability to walk 2 days ago, so I brought him in and put him in a sling. Since then he hasn't gotten and worse, but I don't know if he's gotten any better either. He acts like a normal chicken otherwise, he eats and drinks great and fights me when I put...

I got the one egg that she had left and put her off her nest. I'll go back out there a few times to make sure she's out and about. Thanks!

No, I'm not 100% certain that a snake isn't getting them. That is the only predator that would be possible. We've seen a snake in our barn before, but not in a couple of months. Also, before we lost all of our hens, they would all lay in the same nest and we wouldn't collect eggs for a few days...

I have a red sex link hen that started laying on her nest right after she lost her flock last month due to a coyote attack. I thought she was depressed so I got a few more chickens to go in with her (we free range our chickens, btw). After a day or two she got off her nest and acted normal...

Thank you for writing this! I think we're going to try what you do, moving their coop around daily and feeding them 2 times a day. We'll probably order several of 3 or 4 breeds to see which ones fare best for us.

I'm not locked into the CX at all. Matter of fact, I wasn't even considering them until I saw that post about free ranging them. I will probably go with a more active meat bird, and maybe throw a few CX in there to see how they tolerate free ranging. We are fortunate to not have much of a...

So, I've read through all the pages of the thread about fully raising your cornish crosses on pasture. The thread was encouraging and I want to do it with the meat birds I get next spring. But, talked to several people that raise their birds in chicken tractors about letting them range, and...

We had a hen die of Marek's about a year and a half ago, so I know what the symptoms look like, and this isn't what she has. Oddly enough, the one hen that got Marek's was the only hen to get it. We had an out break around that time of MG, when I brought some new hens into my flock. So, all of...

Here is the best I could get. Her eyes are drooping and are a little runny now. Earlier this morning she had white discharge, but now there is none. If it was Coryza, could she have it this long, and not give it to anyone? Or, could she have had something else and it turn into this?

I have a year old chicken that has been sneezing and sounding congested for a couple of months now. It hasn't gotten any worse, and she hasn't shown any signs of distress, so I decided to let run its course ( I don't use antibiotics unless necessary). Yesterday I noticed that she was walking a...

I mix my own feed of oats, wheat, peas, corn, lentils, BOSS, flax, sesame seeds, and kelp to feed my free range ducks and chickens. I ferment 5 1/2 cups of feed, that makes about 8 cups when finished and they get fed half in the morning, and half in the evening. I also give them several handfuls...

So, is it safe to assume that if she had something like worms or cocci or something like that, then the rest of the chickens would have it too? We have goats, and if one of them has something like that, then I assume more would have it. When we had a rooster, it was pretty stressful on all the...

I wouldn't say a lot, but she goes out of her way to stay out of their way, usually when they are eating grain. She even roosts in the nesting box instead of on the roost. I've never seen them pulling at her feathers or anything, at most she may get a peck on the head. But, like I said, she's...

We used to but got rid of him about 4-6 months ago.